entropicdrift
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- Comment on Reducing buffering when accessing Jellyfin via Tailscale 2 days ago:
Yes, hardware transcoding = using hardware acceleration for decoding/re-encoding the video files. CPUs do it pretty slowly but the special decoder/encoder chips on GPUs (including integrated graphics GPUs) can handle that sort of task no sweat in most cases as long as you’ve got it preperly configured.
- Comment on YSK When you hover over a piece of the phonetic notation on (English) Wikipedia, it shows you an example for its pronunciation 4 days ago:
Okay, so like a GIF Wrangler
- Comment on Zuckerberg hailed AI ‘superintelligence’. Then his smart glasses failed on stage | Matthew Cantor 5 days ago:
Same, yeah. My company even turned on Cursor BugBot to review our PRs and it calls out nonsense non-problems all the time due to lacking context
- Comment on Zuckerberg hailed AI ‘superintelligence’. Then his smart glasses failed on stage | Matthew Cantor 5 days ago:
I hate when people do that. The robot is wrong! All the freaking time.
- Comment on Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA” 6 days ago:
He said Christians won’t have to worry about voting again.
Still fucking ominous, but for slightly different reasons.
- Comment on PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG 1 week ago:
Why sort in the train when you can sort ahead of time and maximize storage space? The ZIP code system allows for a national radix sort.
- Comment on A natural leader is someone who is seen by others as a leader. It is not the same thing as a good leader. 1 week ago:
Bad can mean evil or it can mean incompetent. People don’t love incompetent leaders, but they do love evil ones. If a leader isn’t evil but they are seen as incompetent, people often hate them.
- Comment on If sexuality is a spectrum, does that mean one person is the gayest? 1 week ago:
Much like IQ, once you’re more than 2 standard deviations from the mean, there’s no statistically meaningful way to measure additional queerness.
- Comment on A natural leader is someone who is seen by others as a leader. It is not the same thing as a good leader. 1 week ago:
People don’t love bad leaders, they love abusive leaders. Like the more pain they suffer for a leader, the more they need to love that leader for their suffering to make sense to themselves. Abusive leaders exploit that loophole of human psychology. It’s why cults form all the time and why people in cults are often forced to go door to door just to face the rejection that non-cultists give them. The rejection feom outsiders makes them cling to the cult harder.
- Comment on Why do some gamers invert their controls? Scientists now have answers, but they’re not what you think 1 week ago:
I learned what a joystick was from my grandpa who used it exclusively to play WWI and WWII flight simulators. Almost all of my use of a joystick before the age of 5 was on one of those games.
Today I am equally comfortable with joysticks set either way. Guess it’s just a personal preference?
- Comment on "Veni Vidi Veni" would be a great name for a strip club or brothel. 1 week ago:
Nah, Trojans only hang out at Greasey places
- Comment on Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
Sure, that’s true, though if you allow streams on Bandcamp, those pay $0, so in terms of “try before you buy”, any streaming service is better. It’s only if you actually sell an album on band camp (or AmpWall, a smaller indie service that does a lot of the same stuff) that you’d get paid, as an artist.
- Comment on Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
Tidal pays more than 3x what Spotify pays. Qobuz pays like 5-6x.
- Comment on Beyond the Maze: The Unexpected Store Management Game in Pacman 30th Anniversary 2 weeks ago:
This reads like ChatGPT wrote it
- Comment on Default Settings Are Eating The World 3 weeks ago:
… OK? Is the implication that you make informed decisions despite that, or are you just volunteering info?
- Comment on Default Settings Are Eating The World 3 weeks ago:
Some people are just raised to make informed choices, y’know. Doesn’t mean they’ve got a diagnosable condition, they just aren’t part of the “default settings” tribe.
Like you know allistic nerds exist, right?
- Comment on Many of the younger generations of folks don't know what it's like to watch TV series out of order by virtue of channel surfing on live TV and grabbing random episodes here and there 3 weeks ago:
I dunno, it won a bunch of awards
- Comment on Many of the younger generations of folks don't know what it's like to watch TV series out of order by virtue of channel surfing on live TV and grabbing random episodes here and there 3 weeks ago:
It’s a mildly interactive art piece with an overarching plot if you care to dig, and mindless entertainment if not.
- Comment on Many of the younger generations of folks don't know what it's like to watch TV series out of order by virtue of channel surfing on live TV and grabbing random episodes here and there 3 weeks ago:
You can use it with Jellyfin too, though live TV support varies by the client you use
- Comment on Foolproof advice 3 weeks ago:
Pretty sure it’s a joke.
- Comment on What if this is a coma dream. 3 weeks ago:
More importantly, what if it isn’t?
- Comment on Jellyfin won't fetch the good metadata 3 weeks ago:
I use Sonarr.
Even if you rip your media, it’s just really good at organizing your media files when you “import” them, plus it can fetch the metadata itself and put it into NFO files, which Jellyfin can both read from and write to, if you enable it. This allows for faster library scans and effectively eliminates the issue of mis-identified episodes/shows.
- Comment on Is Miss England's AI round dangerous or progressive? 3 weeks ago:
It could be seen as “forward thinking” in the sense of being open to and accepting of technological progress.
Personally, I think it’s just trend chasing. AI might become deeply useful for many applications someday, but it’s only actually useful for a fraction of what people use it for at the moment.
- Comment on Capitalism is like an RPG game 4 weeks ago:
Overall progress is not an aspect of Rogue and is not at all an inherent attribute of Roguelikes.
- Comment on Yes, you can store data on a bird — enthusiast converts PNG to bird-shaped waveform, teaches young starling to recall file at up to 2MB/s 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple 4 weeks ago:
Better dunk the whole shebang in raw sewage just to be safe.
- Comment on Taco Bell Says 'No Más' to AI Drive-Thru Experiment 5 weeks ago:
Like the old coin operated sandwich shops
- Comment on Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says 5 weeks ago:
A bunch of the earlier ones had their batteries replaced under warranty and are effectively only a couple years old. They’re also dirt cheap and undervalued at the moment.
- Comment on Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says 5 weeks ago:
You could always pick up a 9-year-old Bolt
- Comment on Superfan Ben Stiller Has A Star Trek Pitch, Says It’s Important For Franchise To Return To Big Screen 1 month ago:
IDK, Ben Stiller made Severance, which is pretty thoughtful, philosophical sci-fi. He’s got the chops and the interest in making something, the idea leaves me cautiously optimistic.